Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel and Columbia Law School Honor Marvin E. Frankel

On October 26, 1999, Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP honored its partner Marvin E. Frankel by endowing an interactive classroom in his honor at Columbia Law School. The firm celebrated Marvin's many decades of achievement as a federal judge, professor, human rights activist, scholar, Supreme Court advocate, and trial lawyer. 

At the dedication ceremony, chaired by Dean David W. Leebron, Gary Naftalis, Columbia Class of 1967, spoke on behalf of the firm and recalled his experience as a student in Marvin's classes at Columbia, as a lawyer in cases before Judge Frankel, and later as a colleague and co-author of one of Judge Frankel's numerous books. 

Columbia Professor Jack Greenberg, a law school classmate of Marvin's and former head of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, extolled Marvin's work as a judge, scholar, and civil and international human rights advocate. They were joined at the official ribbon-cutting by firm partners Charlotte Moses Fischman, Columbia Class of 1967, and Harold Weinberger, Columbia Class of 1970.